The Timberman Volume 11 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...full T' as they are placed In the country where M. P. is the principal stuff sold. It seems to me Impossible for us to get the 1%.and the 3% for the 2/4. All of our 2/10 and 2/12 are 'used for bridge purposes and must he full size and rough, as In surfacing we find that the lumber will season crack more rapidly. As for ourselves we would liko to reduce this matter. It might be that If the trade would consent to take their lumber milled not more than %. that we could eventually force the trade to take It that wav. We are a member of the Western association and I believe it a good idea to have these things brought up before the association and try to get the uniform size for all. Yours verv trulv CORCORAN LUMRER CO.. F. G. Cross. THE UDGERWOOD PORTABLE Pine Logger-Loader COMBINED Especially adapted to the pine country oj California, Eastern Oregon, Eastern Washington, Idaho and Eastern British Columbia The Machine has four yarding lines and independent loading apparatus It's in the Final Results that the Lidgerwood leads them all Deoember 1st, 1909. Mr. Chauncey French, c/o Woodward Wight & Co., NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA. Dear Sir: Below I an pleased to hand you report on two of our four-line Lidgerwood Skidders, one at Longville and one at Bonami. At this writing, do not have reports from the other mills. The four-line machine, operating at Longville, running three-lines, and working 24 days, -skidded and loaded 16,377 logs, 4,622,075 ft., averaging 668 logs, or 197,026 ft. per day. At Bonami, the four-line machine, running only two lines, and operating 20 days, put in 11,675 logs, 3,437,496 ft., or a daily average of 569 logs, or 167,782 feet. We are unable to operate full time at Bonami, on account of the mill running short time...